As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
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If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
Technology is teaching us to be human again.
Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
I see technology as being an extension of the human body.
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.